1) woods (1975) study of evoked potentials found right-ear advantages when speech
stimuli were presented and:
a.the stimuli were semantically meaningful
b.the stimuli were familiar
c.the task was linguistic in nature
d.the stimuli were processed holistically
2) _______ occurs when a word presented earlier activates a word with a related
meaning.
a.semantic priming
b.morphological complexity
c.categorical perception
d.lexical ambiguity
3) for most speakers, spontaneous speech errors tend to occur
a.infrequently and randomly
b.frequently and randomly
c.infrequently and in highly regular patterns
d.frequently and in highly regular patterns
4) a theory of language that specifies the relationships among various sequences in the
language is said to have:
a.observational adequacy
b.explanatory adequacy
c. descriptive adequacy
d. linguistic productivity
5) the mechanism within of universal grammar that allows children to learn the specific
subsystems of language is:
a. the subset principle
b.induction
c.parameter setting
d.the linguistic biprogram
6) ___________ maps sounds of language onto written symbols or characters
a.logography
b.orthography
c.syllabary
d.radicals
7) when our utterance is contextually inappropriate, as opposed to an out-and-out error,
we are most likely to use a(n):
a.anticipatory retracing
b.instant repair
c.fresh start
d.all of the above are equally likely
8) ninios (1980) study of ostensive definitions in vocabulary learning found that the
overwhelming percentage referred to:
a.the most salient part of the object
b.an action
c.a whole object, rather than a part of the object
d.all of the above
9) .kintsch and keenan (1973) found that sentences with more propositions _____ than
those with fewer propositions.
a.are harder to recall
b.are easier to recall
c.take longer to read
d.take less time to read
10) genies language acquisition was particularly weak in the area of:
a.semantics
b.pragmatics
c.syntax
d. phonology
11) whorf and sapir concluded that:
a.the way people use language changes the way we think
b.thoughts about objects guide how individuals in cultures name them
c.the relationship between thought and language was too abstract for empirical study
d.eskimo was a more natural language than english
12) schooled language is more _____ than unschooled language.
a.contextualized
b.decontextualized
c.interpersonal
d.colloquial